Over the years I have written letters on current events to the AJC where many have been published. This blog contains postings of all of my letters, in their original unedited form, so that my thoughts and opinions are available for all to see.

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Politifact re Jon Ossoff on AHCA

June 14 2017

Politifact Georgia in the Wednesday AJC gave a half true
rating to Jon Ossof's pronouncement that the Republican sponsored AHCA would
mean massive price hikes for Georgians with pre-existing conditions. I often
have a hard time understanding how the people in Politifact Georgia arrive at
their conclusions. Perhaps if they rated the AHCA impact in terms of mortality
probability we would get a better sense of the truthfulness or otherwise. A
half true massive impact is meaningless and insulting to those Georgians
suffering from pre-existing conditions. Do they mean a reduction from
Himalayan to Alpine impact or merely just Smokey Mountain level impact? In any
event they appear to be out of step with Trump who rated the AHCA as Mean,
Mean, Mean. I think I understand that, and so apparently does Jon Ossoff.